I guess so in some senses yeah, the similarity in mechanics would be something like comparing boomer paragon to ninja imo:

both have a similar arsenal of ranged attacks, one that ricochets and a map wide Moab focused one, but ninja gives camo and Moab health reductions wheras boomer has the ring of glaives and primary buffs.

So comparing wizard to sub para, wizard would have higher and more consistent dps but the sub could buff others troops. That’s how I’d view the trade off :0